Introduction

Pete Betke is the director of the FA HIAC program for advanced study in philosophy, politics, and economics at George Mason University. Jamie Lemke: We want to talk today about the Bloomington School of Institutional Analysis and Public Choice. Vincent Ostrom was a professor at UCLA who also worked in the Alaskan Constitution; Eleanor Ostrom did her dissertation on water rights in California. The insights that they had about the working of a self-governing democracy then spread to the working of self- governing democracies abroad and everywhere and self-sustaining social orders.